Don’t Distract Buhari, He Needs Time – Onu

The former National Chairman of the defunct All Progressives Congress, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has urged Nigerians to exercise patience concerning President Buhari’s style of leadership.

The Punch reports that Onu made this known while speaking to representatives of the Northern Nigerian Students Association at his Abuja residence, earlier today. He further said most nations of thw world succeed well because they have prestigious universities. He however stressed the need for Nigerian Universities to strive to excel as centres of learning.

Onu said, “You should find ways to ensure that this administration succeeds. As students, you have to work very hard and generate the ideas that would help to solve the problems in the society.

“This is one of the means you can help the nation, because most great nations had always had great universities. In those days when Egypt was renowned, they had great universities; when the United Kingdom led the world, it had Oxford University, ranked among the best universities in the world.

“Now the United States is leading the world and the best universities whether it is Havard or Yale are all in the US. So Nigeria would aspire to lead the world and you can do it.”

Our Universities must be centres of learning which must generate ideas that would galvanise growth in the country and this is something that our students would have to ensure, that our nation must surely be the giant that she is supposed to be.”

The APC Chieftain explained that what Nigeria requires at this time is unity so that our differences will be a source of strength rather than a harbinger of destruction.

“The presidency of Buhari is determined to build a modern nation for us, a nation that all of us as Nigerians would be proud of and other people outside Nigeria and other nations would be proud of and respect us.”He said.

Onu also pleaded with Nigerians to give President Buhari and the APC  the time to bring to reality their campaign promises.

It would be recalled that former chairman of Labour Party (LP), Dan Nwanyanwu, has revealed that the reason why the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are struggling in power now is because they didn’t expect their victory in the last general elections.